Re: pkgin hangs during download phase

["David Lord" <netbsd%lordynet.org@localhost>]

On 11 Oct 2011 at 17:05, Rhialto wrote:

> On Tue 11 Oct 2011 at 16:25:56 +0200, iMil wrote:
> > Nevertheless, you may want to give a try to the soon-to-be-released
> > 0.5.1 available in pkgsrc-wip, which includes many new features
> > along with massive speed improvement.
> 
> I'll try pkgin again with the next stable branch, when I'll have a real
> update task again. I tried it this time, but not with much success. I
> didn't keep detailed logs though so I can't give you a proper bug report
> :-(. What generally happened was that some packages were updated but not
> all. For instance, firefox was updated but not sqlite3, which it
> depends on. I was already wondering why it was done so much quicker than
> pkg_chk, which I normally use!
> 
> Maybe I did something wrong. One thing that I could not find was how to
> make the pkg_summary.bz file; I guessed that I had to "pkg_info -X * |
> bzip2 > pkg_summary.bz2" in the All/ directory with packages.

I've been using "pkg_info -X -a" to produce the list.


David


> For a repository with a file:// URL, the download step can be skipped, I
> think.
> 
> -Olaf.
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